The next day was the Kansas City Art Fair on the Plaza. I had a horrible headache and my boyfriend's brother called and asked if we wanted to go. I didn't feel like it, but went. I told them on the way it would be cool if Aerosmith was staying at the Ritz across the street from the Plaza and that they would be at the fair. Well we were walking along and there he was, I stood still in shock and I said, "Oh my god, there he is." They go "Who?" I just stared. Steven and Joey were there with Big Mike. Steven had plaid pants, white t-shirt with psychadelic printing on it. Hair messed up and no make-up, and still looking wonderful. We walked up to them. Steven was on his cell phone looking at some art and thumbing through his credit cards. I was standing about 5 feet from him, just staring. He had a button on his shirt that said "I don't want to kiss your thing." I thought that was so funny. Joey was standing to the side and we went over to him and he said "Hi" to my 8-year old daughter. She acted like "Big deal." We told Joey that we had front row tickets for tomorrow night's show and he said "Good, we'll see ya there." So we walked on. I can't believe I just walked on.
On the way home we started talking about it all. We came up with a plan. We decided to go to the Ritz across the street and hint around to see if they were staying there. Sure enough, they were. So we started thinking. I had been a fan at this time for 23 years. So I got 23 roses, wrote out a letter to Steven on letter paper I made with the "Draw The Line" album on it, and wrote to him how I was a fan for so long and what I admired about him. I told him there were 23 roses, one for every year I'd been a fan and that I would be holding the 24th rose in the front row. It took some cash to get the guy at the hotel past Big Mike, but we did it.
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